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		<title>Sanctions Traded for Sanctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 01:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the Department of State announced that it had terminated sanctions against various Russian entities. First, it lifted sanctions that it had imposed on Rosoboronexport in 2008. Second, it lifted sanctions on the D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia and the Moscow Aviation Institute that it imposed on January 19, 1999 on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OFAC Mugabe Sanctions Hit Home, Our Home Not His</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A golf course in Marion, Illinois, is set to close as a result of economic sanctions imposed by the Department of Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control against Zimbabwe&#8217;s Robert Mugabe and his cronies. How do the Mugabe sanctions have an impact almost 9,000 miles away? According to this story in an Illinois newspaper, Kokopelli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Write Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week several readers brought to my attention a Bloomberg story that announced in its headline &#8220;U.S. Wants Microsoft to End Message Ban in Iran, Cuba.&#8221; This created a bit of a hubbub at the world headquarters of Export Law Blog, since this blog has been advocating for some time that the information exception be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spy Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, Dawn Hanna was convicted by a jury in Detroit for exporting mobile telecom equipment to Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.S. embargo against Iraq in place at the time of the export. Hanna claimed throughout her trial that the purchaser of the equipment told her that the end user was in Turkey. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTN-Bharti Deal Scares Some OFAC-Wary Bankers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report on Reuters today raised some interesting issues with respect to the MTN-Bharti deal. The merger, which would create the world&#8217;s third largest wireless telephone company, is creating some heartburn for U.S. bankers who&#8217;d like to get a piece of this action. The reason for the heartburn: South African wireless operator MTN derives 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Wasn&#8217;t Me, I Swear</title>
		<link>http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/512</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clif Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computerworld posted a story today on Microsoft and the other Internet heavy hitters Google and Yahoo! shutting down instant messaging services to countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions, i.e., Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and Iran. (I reported the Microsoft story last week). In the course of the Computerworld article, the reporter interviewed an unnamed [...]]]></description>
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